Newt Gingrich Responds to President Obama’s Energy Speech
in a speech before the California GOP in San Fransisco, February 2012
The Candidate for the Republican Nomination for President of the United States who has, in my mind, emerged with the strongest platform for righting our listing ship of State, is Newt Gingrich. I'll admit, I've always liked Newt as a Conservative political leader and intellectual, and remember with fondness his leadership in the House during the 1990's. Though troubled by his ignominious departure from politics, and the content of media reports regarding the way he handled his second disintegrating marriage, after watching him through the debates, I am convinced that Newt is the only candidate on the field today with the experience and the intellectual horsepower to lead our nation back to its founding principles in the Great Ideas of Western Civilization, having a clear view of our nation’s unique position in the Arc of History and our vital importance to the continuation of Liberty and Human Rights in the World.
The challenges hurled at us by Socialists and post-Structuralists on the left, and by narrow-minded pragmatists and vulture-capitalists on the right, are destructively dismissive of what it is that we ought to be conserving in our Nation, and in the West; as I listen to Newt and compare him with his fellow contenders, I have become convinced that Newt has a clear understanding of how to meet those challenges in a way that not only preserves but propels our American values and way of life into the future. The other Candidates for the Republican Nomination today, however, give no indication that they see these matters as clearly as Newt Gingrich or understand them as deeply, nor do they seem to be able to articulate sound solutions to the dire and very complex circumstances we now face in ways which effectively marshal the fundamental ideologies of America's founding and which are necessary to the perpetuation of the West. Newt can, and he demonstrates this every time he is given an opportunity to speak. The fact is, two of his opponents in the race for Republican Nomination are sputtering pragmatists who, following the old worn-out formula for political campaigns, are running on issues, not on principles which reach to the foundations of America's social and political institutions, and not on ideas which will propel our Nation through the next generation. His third opponent is an unrepentant ideologue with no realistic plan of action whatsoever. We don’t need another narrow Republican issues-pragmatist for President. Not fully understanding or appreciating the root of our problems, they have a sad history of advocating quick fixes, rather than structural changes, that are easy to communicate and politically expedient, rather than necessarily complex and requiring the focused participation and dialogue of all representatives in the Legislature. In this way they are ruining our nation with their short-sightedness, their alienation of opposing parties, and their shallow understanding of and seemingly limited regard for America’s greatness and importance in the history, and to the future, of Human Rights and Liberty. In my opinion, the trajectory of Western Civilization hinges on the 2012 Presidential election.
In the clip above, Newt demonstrates exactly what will be necessary not only to defeat Barack Obama in the next election, but to contend with adversaries throughout a Presidency which has as its purpose the implementation of structural changes in the way government runs: careful, point-by-point dissection of his adversaries – even though it results in longer and more complex speeches. Newt here demonstrates that he is intelligent and articulate enough to make his case, and to hold the attention of his audience even though it requires lengthy explanation. And this is what we need. We need an intellectual in office for a change, not a pragmatist, not a person who stammers at the limits of his knowledge every time he's called upon to defend his proposals from both fact and principle.
Newt Gingrich 2012
In case you haven't heard other of his speeches, here are a couple of the more compelling speeches he has given during this Primary season:
Newt Gingrich's Speech at CPAC 2012
"A Better Approach to Deficit Reduction"
A public policy speach delivered by Newt Gingrich
at the Heritage Foundation, August 2011
The challenges hurled at us by Socialists and post-Structuralists on the left, and by narrow-minded pragmatists and vulture-capitalists on the right, are destructively dismissive of what it is that we ought to be conserving in our Nation, and in the West; as I listen to Newt and compare him with his fellow contenders, I have become convinced that Newt has a clear understanding of how to meet those challenges in a way that not only preserves but propels our American values and way of life into the future. The other Candidates for the Republican Nomination today, however, give no indication that they see these matters as clearly as Newt Gingrich or understand them as deeply, nor do they seem to be able to articulate sound solutions to the dire and very complex circumstances we now face in ways which effectively marshal the fundamental ideologies of America's founding and which are necessary to the perpetuation of the West. Newt can, and he demonstrates this every time he is given an opportunity to speak. The fact is, two of his opponents in the race for Republican Nomination are sputtering pragmatists who, following the old worn-out formula for political campaigns, are running on issues, not on principles which reach to the foundations of America's social and political institutions, and not on ideas which will propel our Nation through the next generation. His third opponent is an unrepentant ideologue with no realistic plan of action whatsoever. We don’t need another narrow Republican issues-pragmatist for President. Not fully understanding or appreciating the root of our problems, they have a sad history of advocating quick fixes, rather than structural changes, that are easy to communicate and politically expedient, rather than necessarily complex and requiring the focused participation and dialogue of all representatives in the Legislature. In this way they are ruining our nation with their short-sightedness, their alienation of opposing parties, and their shallow understanding of and seemingly limited regard for America’s greatness and importance in the history, and to the future, of Human Rights and Liberty. In my opinion, the trajectory of Western Civilization hinges on the 2012 Presidential election.
In the clip above, Newt demonstrates exactly what will be necessary not only to defeat Barack Obama in the next election, but to contend with adversaries throughout a Presidency which has as its purpose the implementation of structural changes in the way government runs: careful, point-by-point dissection of his adversaries – even though it results in longer and more complex speeches. Newt here demonstrates that he is intelligent and articulate enough to make his case, and to hold the attention of his audience even though it requires lengthy explanation. And this is what we need. We need an intellectual in office for a change, not a pragmatist, not a person who stammers at the limits of his knowledge every time he's called upon to defend his proposals from both fact and principle.
In case you haven't heard other of his speeches, here are a couple of the more compelling speeches he has given during this Primary season:
Newt Gingrich's Speech at CPAC 2012
"A Better Approach to Deficit Reduction"
A public policy speach delivered by Newt Gingrich
at the Heritage Foundation, August 2011
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